China's cold war alliance with Vietnam : historical and theoretical significance -- Breaking the ring of encirclement : Sino-Soviet alliance termination and the Chinese communists' Vietnam policy, 1964-1968 -- A war on two fronts : the Sino-Soviet conflict during the Vietnam War and the betrayal thesis, 1968-1973 -- The politics of victory : Sino-Soviet relations and the road to Vietnamese unification, 1973-1975 -- The end of an "indestructible friendship" : Soviet resurgence and the termination of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance, 1975-1979 -- When allies become enemies
Summary
Although the Chinese and the Vietnamese were Cold War allies in wars against the French and the Americans, their alliance collapsed and they ultimately fought a war against each other in 1979. More than thirty years later the fundamental cause of the
